January 28, 2017 at 08:31PM on Facebook

“Over both these concerns looms a fraught legal question: Should the government be able to essentially commandeer local police as federal agents? Some municipalities are already voluntarily enforcing federal immigration law, but Trump’s executive order would impose huge costs on those who don’t comply – challenging the rights of states and localities to set their own priorities.”
Once again, the party of small government and fiscal responsibility is in charge, so expect a massive expansion of the government and a run-up of the debt. Why police worry about Trump’s ‘sanctuary cities’ crackdown

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I'm the author of several books, including Ice Mountain: An Elegy, Breakdown: Banjo Poems, Words on the Street: An Inaction Comic, and Odes to Tools, but my real work is at my literary blog Via Negativa. I'm the editor and publisher of Moving Poems, a webzine showcasing the best poetry videos on the web. More...